Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-06-24
Local News.

DptHtu DIT bdiiiilStO oh uCouas.
Hon. J. NJ. Smith will deliver an
Grafton at PlattevilIe on the Fourth.
Johnny Kendall has secured the po-
sition of newsboy on the train between
this city and Milwaukee.
Rev NJ Chase is in Milwaukee this
week, attending the annual meeting OF
the diocesan convention.
There will be grand celebration
near the Yellowstone church on July
4th. w. J. G. Bond will deliver the
Grafton.
The showers of rain which fell on
Saturday and Monday were worth mil
lions of dollars to southwestern Wis
consin.
The people Of Blue Mounds seem to
be unusually patriotic this year. Two
18th of July celebrations are advertised
to be held at that place.
Contracts for the right of way for
the Freeport Dodgeville Il Northern
railway through the town Of Waldwick
have been, with two exceptions, pro-
cured.
Homer Sylvester, George Spensley,
Robbie Smith and Fred Spensley start
ed on Monday morning with a team
and wagon and camping outfit, for
fishing excursion to the Wisconsin river.
A game of base ball will be played
at the fair grounds on Friday afternoon
commencing at 2:30 o'clock. Teams
from the north and south sides of
Main street, respectively, will be the
contestants.
The Darlington Register: Michael
McCaryille, that little fellow from Min
eral Point, who weighs only $50 pounds,
sells sewing machines, and never tells
lie, was in the city Tuesday, as
cheerful and happy as a young bride
The Lawn party, with supper at the
residence of J. M. Smith, proved very
successful. The net proceeds, about
twenty dollars, are to be used toward
the building of new fence on the
north and east sides of the church
building and rcctory.
The board of review will meet at
the Office of the city clerk on Monday,
the 9th inst, to review and examine
the assessment of real and personal
property in the city of Mineral Point,
for the year A. ID. 1887, as laid before
them by the assessor
The temperance jubilee held at
Dodgevillc on Monday, Tuesday and
"Wednesday, was largely attended. 1t
is estimated that rs many as sixteen
hundred persons were present in the
tent at one time. The gross receipts
amounted to about five hundred dol
lars.
Ayers Sarsaparila operates rad
ically upon the blood, thoroughly
cleansing and invigorating it. AS a safe
and absolute cure for the various dis
orders caused by constitutional faint
or infection, this remedy has no equal.
Take il this month.
On Saturday last Postmaster General
Villas appointed the following post
masters for Iowa county: George Nei-
bur, Highland, vice John j. Kennedy,
resigned; and Owen O'Neil, Ridgeway,
vice Thomas W. Short, deceased.
Messrs Neibur and O'Neil will make
good postmasters.
On Thursday of last week John
Perry, Jr., of this city, received dis
patch from Kingston, New Mexico,
announcing the death, at that place, of
his brother, Richard Perry, former
resident of Mineral Point. No partic-
ulars of the sad event have been re-
ceived The deceased was IS years of
age.
Delos Z. Beech, secretary of the
=. w. Wis Industrial Association, has
worn happy smile ever since the rain
fell on Saturday last. With a grim
determination he had been working
right along through the dry spell
making preparations for the fair of
1887. He could see but little prospect
for "A successful exhibit of agricultural
products in Wisconsin this season; but
he stuck right to his work nevertheless.
Now, however, he believes that the
coming fair will break the record and
prove the greatest exhibition ever held
" he association.
The graduating exercises of the
Darlington High school will be held Mt
the NJ. +. church Mt Darlington, on
Friday, June "A, commencing at
10 n. m In the evening a strawberry
and ice cream festival will be held ut
Drivers opera house for the benefit of
the public school library. \ short pro-
gramme of music and calisthenics
will be presented immediately before
the festival. The names of the grad
yates are rs follows: Clara Gray, Mabel
Bates. Frank Conley, Belle Proctor,
VIII Bridgman, Minnie Shockley, Or
vile Benedict. Kate Shaw, Minnie
Augu,. Hattie Crow.
\ grand celebration will be held AT
the McWiiiiams school house in the
town of Moscow, on Monday, July 4th
1887. The officers of the day are as
follows: president, Michael Mekenna
vice presidents, A. Blanchard, L. h
Dcmuth. 4. i. Steensland. John Leon
ard, Fred Theobald. reader, b. Holland
orator, Calvert Spenslsy: committee OF
arrangements, Gabriel Disrud. Minor